§ MR. JAMES BIGWOOD (Middlesex, Brentford)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether his Department is now prepared to adopt the recommendation of the Departmental Committee and make a determined effort to stamp out rabies by exercising directly the powers which they already possess under the Diseases of Animals Act.
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. WALTER LONG,) Liverpool, West DerbyThere appears to me to be great force in the recommendations of the Committee to which my hon. Friend refers, and I am now engaged in the consideration of the practical questions which the adoption of those recommendations involves. I hope to be in a position to make some further announcement on the subject at no distant date.
§ MR. BIGWOODWithin ten or fourteen days?